ENGLISH CHANNEL: French patrol boats squared up to Royal Navy warships around Jersey yesterday in the first major dispute between France and Britain over fishing rights post-Brexit.
French fishing boat crews held a flotilla protest in the Channel Island’s main harbour against new licences that they have been told to obtain.

PALESTINE: A Spanish citizen has been charged with funding terrorism by an Israeli military court in the occupied West Bank.
Juana Ruiz Sanchez is accused of funnelling donations from European governments via charities to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which Israel, the EU and US deem a terrorist organisation.

AFGHANISTAN: Gunmen killed a former TV presenter in Kandahar yesterday.
Nimat Rawan’s assassination came a day after the Taliban warned that journalists and media workers who it regards as responsible for “one-sided news” would “face the consequences.”
According to Unesco, 76 journalists have been killed in Afghanistan since 2006.

UNITED STATES: A law passed by Donald Trump removing protection for wild birds was revoked by the government yesterday.
Mr Trump weakened the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which allowed companies to be prosecuted for causing the death of wild birds. 
But Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said that it was a “bedrock environmental law” essential to protecting endangered species.